HUNTER'S FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN!

Hunter's 1st day of Kindergarten
We Are so proud of you bud!



Our little Hunter went to Kindergarten today on

August 26, 2009! As some of you may know we were going to have Hunter wait until next year, because his birthday is July 22, but Ry and I decided he was ready! So 3 weeks before school started I went and signed him up! Oh my heck I love this little guy so much, he is such a helper at home and we are going to miss him. My little or I guess BIG Hunter is reading so I just felt like he needed more than preschool. We still may hold him back and just repeat kindergarten, we will wait and see! HUNTER YOUR MOM, DAD and especially your little sissy LOVE YOU SO MUCH! Hope you have a great and fun day!

Hunter and Courtney at the bus stop!

The bus stop is our driveway!
Courtney Hiatt took good care of HUNTER!
All the kids in the neighborhood were excited
that HUNTER was going.The big kids like Courtney,Morgan, and Steven

Thanks guys for watching my little guy!

So, the bus came at 8:34am!

If any of you are wondering I cried

and then I followed the bus to the school!

I think I might do that everyday my

heart broke when he left! When he came

he ran off the bus and said, "Mom I had so much fun"!

I am so happy for him! Oh ya and Dad came to the school and

brought the camcorder. He is getting so big!

Missing Ryan and reminiscing!

I am reminiscing cause Ryan and Kasey are in Africa on a safari hunt. When they get back we are hopefully going to book a cruise for this November. In November Ryan and I will have been married for 10 years and think a cruise is a great way to celebrate, and we hope all our friends will book with us hint..hint... John and Fawntell! Marni and Kasey are already in (at least they better be). Who ever else wants in, better say soon, like Gary and Annie, and who ever else! Ryan is having fun in Africa I am so excited for him, he will have been gone two weeks on April 14 (my b-day)! I can't wait to hear all about the trip and post his pictures! Ry I hope you are having a blast and I love you and miss you so much and can't wait to see you! This is me missing Ry!

Reminiscing March/April 2008 Southern Carribean- Domincan Republic, Antigua, Tortola, Barbados, St Lucia

Kasey, Marni, John, Fawntell, Ryan and Jody

This island is Antigua, we bought body boards in town

went to beach called half moon bay and body surfed all

day! I lost my top in the water and had no idea, I was so

embrassed! We ended up giving our boards to a family,

because there was no where buy the boards.

This beach was about 30 minutes from town.

Reminiscing about last year's cruise!

Fawntell and John!





























The boys just chillin', Kasey Petersen, John
Mogle, and Ryan Newman (my handsome
husband)!

















Marni and Kasey on the way to the cruise!
















The girls ready to go to "White Heat,
"(the night club)! Fawntell , Marni ,and Me!
okay so this cruise did not have the club, "White
Heat," but every club from now on will be
White Heat!















John and Fawntell so HOT!

Cooking with Mom

Ryan wanted my homemade brownies, so the kids and I made them! We love you Daddy!

Haley modeling her new minnie P.J.'s
(Her surprise for mommy being gone)!

I love my kids! Hunter can't resist the camera!

Hunter with his Pizza box! That was such a good idea Easton!

Picture Time

Our Very cute boys! They giggle so much! We had fun Thank you Aunt Kelly and Easton!

Love Jody and Hunter!

The Playground in Mesquite!

Easton at the playground! Kell doesn't know I got her in the picture! LOL

We bought markers and paper for the ride home! What a life saver!

Hunter and Easton in their NEW boxer briefs so funny!
They couldn't wait to get them on!

Getting ready for the pool, and not another pillow fight!

Hunter, Mar and Easton in Mesquite!

Hunter is thinking, "I wish I had my toy"!

Hunter is happy to be in the sun!

Hunter and Mommy's trip to Mesquite!

The car ride was very entertaining!

Kelly and Easton(cousins) invited Hunter and I to go to Mesquite to watch Marlee(cousin) to play in a softball tournament! I left Haley home with her daddy!

Snow Days UGH!

Hunter and Haley!

Hunter Loves to hit his mom with snow balls!

This is our FIRST family picture! I am terrible at getting us to get a family picture, now it will be a yearly event! We took some outside shots with our awesome neighbor Heather and then we went to kiddie kandids for inside shots. All in all a lot of work!

Learning how to put pictures on my blog!

This is Hunter and Haley, we took their pictures on the 4th of July 2008! I just learned how to put pictures on my blog. Thanks to Marni Petersen, I went to her house on Nov. 7 and 8th and did a MY LOVABLE SHOE PARTY/FUNDRASIER for Mog's Dance team.

About Us

Thanks Heather Barton for taking our family pictures, we were a handful! We ended up going to Kiddie Kandids and getting inside shots too.

Ryan and I have been married 9 year's. Ryan and I have been together for 12 years. We have two awesome kids Hunter who is 4 and Haley who is 19 months. Ryan and I were married about 5 years before we had Hunter! You could say we were a little set in our ways at that point. It is so fun being with him we definitely enjoy our kids, but we really love to spend time together with out them now and then.
Ryan loves to hunt but not your normal hunting(he used to, but he got a little tired of it). Now he likes to hunt caribou and bear in Canada and Alaska. So we have a lot of mounts(dead animals) in our house! I don't mind I think it is kind of cool. Ryan and I both grew up in Gunnison,Utah and both of our families still live there. We used to visit often, but after kids it got to hard to pack everything up(excuses), that is what everyone tells me oh well! Ryan also LOVES to golf, we live right next to the Gladstan Golf Course in Elk Ridge, UT. We bought a golf cart at the first yard sale we ever went to about 3 years ago. It is awesome! Ryan golfs every morning in the spring/summer and as long it is warm or not snowing in the fall. Okay, so Ryan has a lot of hobbies, I think it is great is makes him happy and he always wants to make me happy as well. Ryan then snowmobiles every Saturday he can in the winter(which usually is every Saturday) with my family! Ryan also absolutley LOVES above all spending time with his kids and me, but Haley is so much of a daddy's girl. Hunter used to be, but he is changing to mom and a little bit of independence. Ryan least likes working he would rather be with his family or doing his hobbies, he does work at NuSkin and he has been there for 10 years.

I was a dental assistant for 8 years before I had my babies, I got to stay home once I had Hunter. I love being home with my kids at first it was a little tricky, but now I don't know how I could ever work especially on someone else's schedule. My hobbies are basically doing lots of fun things with my kids obviously it depends on the season what we do for fun. I love love to shop for clothes for me and the kids. My biggest love is shoes for me and the kids therefore I started my own business just 9 months ago. I do Shoe Parties, and sell over 60 styles of women's shoes and about 30 styles of infant squeaky shoes(they squeak when they walk, so cute)! My business name is My Lovable Shoes and it is doing awesome I can't believe the response I have had. I am away from my kids just a couple of hours and they are spending that time with their dad. They go to bed at 8 and 8:30p.m. so luckily I don't miss much. A very favorite hobby of mine is running and exercising. But, since I started the business I have not exercised very much well basically not at all. I love making my husband and children happy so that is my very favorite thing to do!
Hunter is 4 and goes to preschool 3 days a week, he absolutely loves it! He is learning so much his teachers are very surprised and so am I. He loves to learn, luckily he got his dads gene for that. Hunter loves golf he asks his dad if they can go hit balls all the time. He really is pretty good too. Hunter also love to go for rides on the Rhino he loves to climb the really steep hills. Hunter has a disease known as Cystic Fibrosis(CF), this disease affects Hunters lungs and his pancrease. He was born with this it, it is genetics. We are so impressed by his happy spirit with this disease, he is our little angel sent to us from Heavenly Father. His disease is fatal, but we have HIGH hopes that is going to change before it affects him to that point. Hunter has to do a treatment twice a day for 30 minutes a time(when he is sick it is 1 hour twice a day), he takes up to 20 pills a day! He has been swollowing big pills since he was a year old. He doesn't even blink an eye to all of this he thinks it is normal and great and he loves to show people how he does treatment, because it is cool! During the summer Hunter love to spend every momemt outside, he loves to go camping, he loves playing with his friends(so does mom), and he likes to ride his motorcycle when it is working, however after he crashed a year ago into our rock wall he has been a little nervous about it, but I think he will get back on this year. Hunter has been begging me to let him play baseball or tee ball the problem is, is there is no program until they are 5. I guess he will wait!
Haley, Oh what can I say about her CRAZY and more CRAZY! She is 1, but has been a handful since she was born. She is a great kid just wild! She slept through the night between 8 and 10 weeks old it was awesome. She takes two big naps a day and goes to bed at 8p.m. and get up about 7a.m., so we don't see her much, but when we do watch out she is CRAZY HAPPY! She started crawling at 7 to 8 months and walking at 9 1/2 to 10 months! I know it was my crazy squeaky shoes that made her want to walk! They make the cutest little sound for little toddlers, she loves the sound so started walking. She absolutely loves her big brother, but he has been a little annoyed with her lately because she takes everything away from him, I think it is kind of funny! She as I mentioned before is a Daddy's girl! Hunter and her are complete opposite Hunter is mellow, has red hair and kind of fair, not to bad. Haley is wild crazy, has dark brown hair and olive skin but they both have brown eyes. I can't believe I got two kids that are so different. I LOVE MY FAMILY! I hope everybody enjoys all our pictures and stories!